San Pedro Businesswoman Robbed, Shot; Husband Murdered
A businessman was shot dead in San Pedro and his common-law wife was also shot and robbed of their day’s sales. It happened in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, as [...]
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Police Commissioner Advises Against Hiring Interdicted Police Privately
You just heard that the main suspect in the robbery and murder incident in San Pedro is an interdicted policeman. It is not an unusual occurrence for police officers to [...]
A Policeman in Corozal is Accused of Sexually Abusing a Minor
In the north, another law enforcement officer is being investigated, following allegations being made against him that he sexually abused a female minor in Corozal District. According to Commissioner of [...]
Ceiling Collapses at Belize City Magistrates’ Court
Today, the Magistrate’s Court was supposed to be in session as per usual, but an emergency pause had to be put in effect after court employees walked in the building [...]
A Burglar Is Arrested and Charged After Being Caught In a Church
A burglar, who was caught inside a church stealing, pretended to be using the bathroom to stave off attention that he had already drawn to himself after prying open the [...]
A Suspect is Charged for the Murder of PC Lorray Arzu
Police Constable Lorray Arzu lost her life following a deadly shooting incident in Dangriga on October twelfth. The twenty-two-year-old woman was along with another individual identified as Leonel Rowland inside [...]
A Knife-wielding Common-law Husband Attacks His Wife and Children
Forty-six-year-old Angelita Requeña and her two children endured a vicious assault over the weekend when her common-law husband attacked them with a knife. The Esperanza resident remains hospitalized at the [...]
Belize Police Department Sets Record Straight on 2022 Crime Stats
Home Affairs Minister Kareem Musa shared the most recent crime statistics with the media last Thursday during an assignment in Belmopan. He told reporters that the numbers of homicides in [...]
Gideon Ishim Perishes Succumbs to Injuries After Falling Out of a Pickup Truck
There was a fatal road traffic accident recorded down south over the weekend when a passenger fell out of the back of a pickup truck while traveling along the Southern [...]
A Motorcycle Crash Claims Life of Paul Vasquez
Meanwhile, on Saturday morning near San Estevan Village in Corozal, police responded to the scene of a fatal road traffic accident involving a twenty-three-year-old man who was riding a motorcycle. [...]
Consultations Held on Amendments to Fiscal Incentives Act
The Ministry of Investment met with forty-six fiscal incentive companies, business representatives and owners of operating and start-up businesses engaged in agriculture, manufacturing and tourism, on Friday. The engagement took [...]
Ilan Goldfajn Elected As New I.D.B. President
The Inter-American Development Bank (I.D.B.) has elected a new president. Today, during a Special Meeting of the Bank’s Board of Governors at the I.D.B. Headquarters in Washington, D.C, Ilan Goldfajn [...]
Belize Represented at 11th Commonwealth Youth Parliament in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago is hosting the Eleventh Commonwealth Youth Parliament under the theme, Youth Involvement in Parliamentary Democracy. The Young Leaders Alliance of Belize has selected two youth representatives from [...]
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Eighty Hawksbill Sea Turtle Hatchlings Journeys to Sea on Tobacco Caye
On November nineteenth, Tobacco Caye saw its first set of hawksbill turtle hatchlings, since five years ago, released into the sea. On September twenty-first, a hawksbill turtle returned to the [...]
Celebrating Garifuna History and Future
This year’s celebration of Garifuna Settlement Day drew record numbers in Dangriga where Belizeans from across the country, and others in the Diaspora, gathered for a weekend of nonstop music, [...]
Inter-Office Basketball League Finals Underway; King of the Hills Race Test Belizean Cyclists
Goodnight and welcome back to another edition of Sports Monday. I am Paul Lopez. Let’s jump right into it folks. The biggest basketball match of the year, to date, went [...]
